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Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of a provincial registrar called Ivan Yesakov in the town of Luga near Novgorod (1790). Studied landscape painting under Mikhail Ivanov at the Imperi...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of a nobleman called Fyodor Churikov in the village of Zemlyansk in Voronezh Province (1791). Studied history painting at the Imperial Academy of ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Alexei Vasilyev in St Petersburg (1783). Studied landscape painting under Fyodor Alexeyev at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1788–1803). Awarded a m...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Born in the family of Matvei Gribanov (1797). Studied history painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1806–17). Awarded a minor silver medal (1816) and a first-class...
German painter, draughtsman, engraver. Relative of Georg Dericker. Younger brother of medallist and miniaturist Johann Jacob Reichel (1778–1856), elder brother of engineer Casimir Reichel (1797–1870)...
Architect, draughtsman. Son of Andrei Martynov. Born in St Petersburg (1803). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–21). Awarded two minor silver medals (1817, 1819), a major silver medal (18...
German painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Twin brother of Gerhard von Kügelgen, father of artist Constantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880). Born to Franz Ferdinand Anton von Kügelgen (1727–88) an...
German painter. Twin brother of Carl von Kügelgen. Born to Franz Ferdinand Anton von Kügelgen (1727–88) and Maria Justina Hoegg (1744–1805) in the Palatinate town of Bacharach am Rhein (1772). Attend...
French painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Lived in Moscow (from 1772). Nominated to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1808), academician (1809). Painted miniature portraits of Empress Elizabeth...
Architect, painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, applied artist, teacher. Elder brother of Karl Brullov, half-brother of Fyodor Brullov, brother-in-law of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov. Great-...